Activities of Gabriele ZIMMER related to 2011/2088(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on tackling early school leaving
Amendments (6)
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Advocates flexible, needs-based forms of learning at schools and stresses that this challenge must be addressed in particular by primary schools and in the early years of secondary schooling; takes the view that teaching staff, educational psychologists and educational social workers should be qualified for this purpose;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the connection between reducing rates of early school leaving and promoting social mobility through education, and the fact that targets in these areas are achievable only when sufficient funding is available; calls, therefore, for massive public investment in public education systems in order to guarantee free access to high-quality educational and care provision, from pre- school level to university or vocational education, irrespective of socio-economic or cultural background;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Draws attention, in this regard, to the OECD’s PISA studies which establish that students in educational systems with a lesser degree of vertical and horizontal differentiation are less likely to repeat a year or to be expelled; highlights the OECD’s finding that students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds suffer most from having to repeat a school year or from being expelled; highlights the OECD’s finding that early selection of students for different educational pathways increases socio-economic inequality in terms of educational opportunities without effecting any improvement in average performance in the educational systems in question;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Draws attention, in this regard, to the OECD’s finding that the comparative performance of school systems in the PISA studies is negatively affected by the practices of moving students from one school to another on account of poor results, behavioural problems or specific learning difficulties and of streaming students in all subjects on the basis of ability;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Points out in this regard that, according to the OECD, socio- economically disadvantaged students are often at a double disadvantage because they attend schools affected by various types of social-economic disadvantage, in which there are fewer and less well- qualified teachers;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that special and timely individual careers advice be given to all pupils and especially early school leavers to facilitate their entry into the world of work, and that they should be enabled by means of specially tailored measures to obtain skills and qualifications later, qualifications and as many school certificates as possible later, while ensuring that these teenagers and young adults are not parked in a transition system, but that they are entitled to training places (in non-workplace settings where workplace training is not available);